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A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.
After more than 30 years of programming we ought to know that the design of complex software is inherently difficult.
As a matter of fact, the adaptability of a program to changes in its objectives (often called maintainability) and to challges in its environment in terms of the degree to which it is neatly structured.
As a result, software engineering has become the El Dorado for... (more Niklaus Wirth quotes)
| The School of Niklaus Wirth: The Art of Simplicity by L?szl? B?sz?rm?nyi, J?rg Gutknecht, and Gustav Pomberger | |
| Lecture notes on a course in systems programming: Based on the lectures of Professor Niklaus Wirth which were given during the winter and spring of 1965/66 ... Univ. Computer Sciences technical report) by Alan C Shaw |